Because of the lies, many people's retirement dreams were destroyed. The tax fairness plan was a fabricated hoax (double tax and double cross) in order to suck unknowledgeable people into their dirty plan to destroy the Income Trust market. Flaherty's justification was to provide 18 pages of blacked out documents.

Is this the Honest, Open and Accountable government Harper promised when he was elected? So by destroying the Income Trust Market, who were the main beneficiaries? I suggest it was the Life Insurance Companies and Canada's Controlling Corporate Elite (CCCE). It was Income Trusts that were in direct competition to the Insurance companies so they had to be destroyed. To hell with the average Canadian Investor many of whom were seniors.

This government supports Foreign Investors but Canadian Investors get to eat dirt. Mainly profitable Canadian owned Trusts were sold on the cheap to foreigners who won't pay a dime in tax. I suggest that the Globe and Jackie McNish are part of the cover-up and are guilty of enabling the CON's game of lies and distortion.

From my vantage point, none of the facts are being made available to Canadians who are being kept in the dark. When Harper and Flaherty keep repeating the same lies often enough it now becomes the truth. Why doesn't the press does not call them on it? I suppose the reason is the press is run by the CCCE.

Absolutley nothing. They would rather flip flop back and forth with their support/non-support/support enabling of this miserable government to save their own political skin rather then doing what is right and defeating it when they had the chance.

EVENTS

Income Trust Halloween VigilThanks to all who participated in both the Ottawa and Calgary vigils to mark the anniversary of the announcement.

WE"D LIKE SOME ANSWERS

As you well know, the ‘income trust thing’ has grown beyond the
question of whether fair taxes are paid on income from trusts. It’s
become a giant dirty snowball, and as it rolls forward it accumulates
more and more bulk. There are so many unanswered questions. Let's list a few and invite our "Accountable" government and our free press to provide some much-needed answers.

It is said “Trusts are inefficient use of capital. Why?” Two
related questions are ‘Whose money is it, anyway?’, and ‘Do Canadian
investors have a free and efficient market?’

How can information that is already in the public domain at SEDAR
make for a state secret? How could such information be used to harm
the Canadian national interest? And who would cause the harm?

Why won’t the Canadian media investigate the falsehoods and
misrepresentations told by the Minister of Finance to a committee of
Parliament? Was the Minister in contempt of Parliament?

Why won’t the Canadian media report (a) government tax revenues
gained from BCE in 2006 when BCE was a corporation to (b) government
tax revenues that would be gained in 2007 from BCE, if BCE had been
allowed to proceed to a trust, and (c) government tax revenues that
will be gained in 2007 from BCE, when BCE ownership has been carved
up as 45% foreign ownership and 55% large Canadian pension fund
ownership?